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Keith Kothman is a composer and sound artist working across the realms of concert music to interactive installation. Performances and installations of his work have taken place at the International Computer Music Conference; Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States; SIGGRAPH Asia 2008; University of Minnesota Spark Festival; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Bowling Green New Music and Art Festival; Electronic Music Midwest; Richmond Third Practice Festival; the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in Sweden; InteractivA ’03 at MACAY: Museo de Arte ContemporÃ¡neo Ateneo de YucatÃ¡n, Merida, Mexico; and Videoformes International Multimedia and Video Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Kothman was awarded an Honorable Mention for Interludes (video by John Fillwalk) at the 31 st annual Bourges Electroacoustic Music competition, and recordings of his music are available on the Capstone, Cambria and New Albany labels. His Ph.D. in Music Composition came from the University of California, San Diego. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. Principal composition teachers have included Roger Reynolds, Russell Pinkston, Joji Yuasa, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, and Dan Welcher.

Recent work has focused on live-performance electronic music involving laptop, iPad, various MIDI controllers, and LittleBits synthesis modules. Scholarly interests include the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, the sociology of music, technology and culture, and the later works of Morton Feldman. While at UCSD, Kothman studied aesthetics and the sociology of music with Jann Pasler and George Lewis.

Kothman is currently professor of music and director of the School of Music at Montana State University. Previously he was an associate professor of compositionÂ at Ball State University, where he hadÂ also been the director of the music technology program, and coordinator of undergraduate programs in music.

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Keith Kothman is a composer and sound artist, currently living in Bozeman, Montana. Kothman was awarded an Honorable Mention for Interludes at the 31st annual Bourges Electroacoustic Music competition, and recordings of his music are available on the Capstone, Cambria and New Albany labels. He isÂ director of the School of Music at Montana State University. Recent work has focused on live-performance electronic music involving laptop, iPad, various MIDI controllers, and LittleBits synthesis modules. More information is at keithkothman.com.